Massive Tropical Storm Could Impact Fairfield County

The latest projected path of Tropical Storm Nate from the National Hurricane Center.Photo Credit: National Hurricane CenterSince Nate will be moving inland over the U.S. this weekend, people may have little time to react and prepare for a tropical storm or hurricane, AccuWeather said.Photo Credit: AccuWeather.com

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A massive quick-moving tropical storm that is now south of Cuba will threaten part of the southern United States as a hurricane this weekend before it begins trekking toward the Northeast, according to AccuWeather.com.

Nate is likely to make landfall somewhere between the Florida Panhandle to southeastern Louisiana, AccuWeather said. The exact point of landfall will be more clear once the storm begins to move north of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.

"Since the system will be moving over very warm waters, we could quickly have a powerful hurricane on our hands," said AccuWeather Hurricane Expert Dan Kottlowski.